Wendy Davis Memoir: I Had 2 Abortions During 2nd Marriage

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Wendy Davis reveals in a new
campaign memoir that she terminated two pregnancies for medical reasons in the
1990s, including one where the fetus had developed a severe brain abnormality.

Davis writes in "Forgetting to be Afraid" that she
had an abortion after an exam revealed that the brain of the fetus had
developed in complete separation on the right and left sides. The Associated
Press purchased an early copy of the book, which hits stores Tuesday.

The memoir also describes ending an earlier ectopic
pregnancy, in which an embryo implants outside the uterus. Davis disclosed the
terminated pregnancies for the first time since her nearly 13-hour filibuster
last year over a tough new Texas abortion law.

Both pregnancies happened before Davis, a state senator from
Fort Worth, began her political career and after she was already a mother to
two young girls.

She writes that the ectopic pregnancy happened in 1994.
Terminating the pregnancy was considered medically necessary. Such pregnancies
generally aren't considered viable, meaning the fetus can't survive, and the
mother's life could be in danger. But Davis wrote that in Texas, it's
"technically considered an abortion, and doctors have to report it as
such."

Davis said she and her former husband, Jeff, wound up
expecting another child in 1996 after they decided to stop taking birth-control
measures. During her second trimester, Davis said she took a blood test that
could determine chromosomal or neural defects, which doctors first told her
didn't warrant concern. After a later exam revealed the brain defect, Davis
said she sought opinions from multiple doctors, who told her the baby would be
deaf, blind and in a permanent vegetative state if she survived delivery.

"I could feel her little body tremble violently, as if
someone were applying an electric shock to her, and I knew then what I needed
to do," Davis writes. "She was suffering."

She goes on to write that an "indescribable blackness
followed" the pregnancy and that the loss left her forever changed.

Davis catapulted to national Democratic stardom after her
filibuster temporarily delayed passed of sweeping new abortion restrictions.
She's now running for governor against Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott,
who is heavily favored to replace Republican Gov. Rick Perry next year.

Abbott spokesman Matt Hirsch did not return messages seeking
comment.

Anti-abortion groups, including those that have attacked her
candidacy, expressed sympathy for the tough choice Davis confronted with the
second terminated pregnancy but said they hoped all decisions end in choosing
to continue a pregnancy.

"That's an incredibly difficult position for anyone to find
themselves in. While our heart goes out for the decision she had to make,
again, still the value of life is precious," said Melissa Conway,
spokeswoman for Texans Right to Life.

Planned ParenthoodPresident Cecile Richards, daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards,
said in a statement that she was grateful for Davis sharing her story, though
"no woman should have to justify her decision."

Davis' filibuster in June 2013 set off a chaotic scene in
the Texas Capitol that extended past midnight. Thousands of people watched it
live online, with President Barack Obama at one point tweeting, "Something
special is happening in Austin tonight."

In the book, Davis recalls reading testimony during the
filibuster about a woman who had had an abortion after learning her daughter
would be born with a terminal illness. She says the story could have been hers
and writes about her hands shaking and wiping tears from her eyes.

At one point during the filibuster, Davis said she almost
felt compelled to talk about her failed pregnancies but said she knew it would
overshadow her effort to block the bill.

The bill required doctors who perform abortion to obtain
admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and mandated that clinics upgrade its
facilities to hospital-level operating standards. A federal judge in Austin
last month blocked a portion of the law that would have left Texas with only
seven abortion facilities statewide.

Wendy
Davis

Wendy Davis is the
candidate for the 2014 Wendy Davis (TX)
gubernatorial campaign, a Texas
Senate senator, was a supporter for Annie's
List, and a Fort Worth (TX) City
Council member.

Note:
Amber A. Mostyn is
the chair for Annie's List, and a national
finance council member at Ready for
Hillary.

George Soros is the
co-chair, national finance council at Ready
for Hillary, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).

Cecile Richards
is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, Ann
Richards’s daughter, and was a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation.

Ann Richards was Cecile Richards’s mother, and the Texas state government governor.

Ted Turner is the
chairman for the Turner Foundation,
a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and the founder of CNN.

Jessica Tuchman Mathewsis a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace uncovered the plans for population control by
involving the United States
in war)

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